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This statement by leaders of the three Abrahamic communities in Boston was issued this week
Its thoughtfulness and the breadth and stature of its signers are extraordinary – representing the best version of our religious traditions and communities.

If in your own community, religious leaders are well on the way to adopting your own statement on the Gaza-Israel war and publicizing it, wonderful! --

If however you don't have such a statement ready, the existence of this one could be a great help. In that case, we strongly recommend that in your own community, you take this statement with its list of well-known signers to your own congregation for discussion and signing, and to interfaith leaders where you are. Then go to the local media and ask them to do a major news story about the statement's adoption in your locale.

There are three benefits of this work: It could change the policies of the US and perhaps the Israeli and Palestinian governments; it could hearten those Palestinians and Israelis who are struggling for peace; and it could build the crucial long-needed, long-lasting networks of Abrahamic intercommunal work for peace and other deep values of our traditions — social justice and healing of the wounded earth God gave us, which we share.

With blessings of shalom, salaam, peace – Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Awaskow@shalomctr.org